Sentence examples for likely to be questionable from inspiring English sources

81 Clark believes that voluntary informed consent is likely to be questionable from patients for whom the surgery represents their only hope of relief from their condition.

Discussions within groups constitute public discourse and reactions and expectations shaped how conversations proceeded: where a contribution was anticipated as likely to be questioned or questionable, there was sometimes an attempt to reinforce the validity of statements by asserting an unprovable extreme – 'everybody drinks' or 'the vast majority', usually with some emphasis.

The relevance of proposed rules seems to be questionable.

However this proved to be questionable.

The more miles run, the less a person is likely to be affected by questionable dietary choices or by what Dr. Williams calls "lapses, like those that happen during the holidays".

The AMEV genome was chosen for two reasons: (1) because it is not closely related to any known poxviruses and therefore its genome contains a large number of genes with unknown function and (2) its genome was liberally annotated and therefore it is questionable which ORFs are likely to be functional genes.

The centre of defence is likely to be highly experienced but of questionable mobility: Kolo Touré and Didier Zokora.

This would suggest that if variation in MTNR1B does affect insulin sensitivity, then it is likely to be functionally weak and of questionable clinical significance.

However, we have consistently demonstrated that our chemotaxis assay identifies a clear response to PDGF, CCL11 and CCL19, so if our assay is too insensitive to detect a chemotactic response to the CXC chemokines this effect is likely to be very small and therefore of questionable biological importance.

With profitable opportunities for malfeasance markedly diminished, far fewer questionable practices are likely to be initiated in the immediate future.

Recent mergers with Countrywide Financial and Merrill Lynch position BAC as a behemoth in the financial services industry, but these transactions have also loaded the company with questionable assets that are likely to be written down substantially in the near future.